Dear Listers, <<... where her translation of the Sanskrit story Bana's Kadambari was justly famous ...>> In Marathi, the word for 'novel' is 'kadambari', derived from Banabhatta's celebrated work 'Kadambari,' which is a novel in the Sanskrit language. It was written in the 7th century. It is an extremely prolix work, typical of the style in which literature was a vehicle for displaying the writer's mastery over the language. Compound words in it run for 2 or 3 lines and sentences run into pages! It is a reading challenge even for those well-equipped with Sanskrit. Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, August 30, 2010.